From: Mihaela Muraru Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:54:42 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Staging: wilc1000: Replace memcpy by ether_addr_copy X-Git-Tag: v4.10-rc1~148^2~594 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=32623b0d28e53f926d962c863ce9a62ddc70f376;p=karo-tx-linux.git Staging: wilc1000: Replace memcpy by ether_addr_copy This patch fixes the following checkpatch.pl warning: Prefer ether_addr_copy() over memcpy() if the Ethernet addresses are __aligned(2) According to ether_addr_copy() description and functionality, all Ethernet addresses should align to the u16 datatype. Here is the output of pahole for the relevant datastructures: struct del_sta { u8 mac_addr[6]; /* 0 6 */ /* size: 6, cachelines: 1, members: 1 */ /* last cacheline: 6 bytes */ }; struct sta_inactive_t { u8 mac[6]; /* 0 6 */ /* size: 6, cachelines: 1, members: 1 */ /* last cacheline: 6 bytes */ }; Signed-off-by: Mihaela Muraru Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c index ff3d267c2eb0..0c5dea78807d 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c @@ -1930,7 +1930,7 @@ static s32 Handle_Get_InActiveTime(struct wilc_vif *vif, wid.val = kmalloc(wid.size, GFP_KERNEL); stamac = wid.val; - memcpy(stamac, strHostIfStaInactiveT->mac, ETH_ALEN); + ether_addr_copy(stamac, strHostIfStaInactiveT->mac); result = wilc_send_config_pkt(vif, SET_CFG, &wid, 1, wilc_get_vif_idx(vif)); @@ -2166,7 +2166,7 @@ static void Handle_DelStation(struct wilc_vif *vif, pu8CurrByte = wid.val; - memcpy(pu8CurrByte, pstrDelStaParam->mac_addr, ETH_ALEN); + ether_addr_copy(pu8CurrByte, pstrDelStaParam->mac_addr); result = wilc_send_config_pkt(vif, SET_CFG, &wid, 1, wilc_get_vif_idx(vif));